/* NOTICE
    OpenJaWS - Open Java Weather Station
    
    Copyright (C) 2008 Grant Gardner <grant@lastweekend.com.au>
    
    OpenJaWS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

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NOTICE */

package au.com.lastweekend.openjaws.api;

/**
 * Simple interface to manage configurations of the weather station.
 * 
 * <p>
 * Added bean getters/setters as necessary for specific config values and supply a form template that handles those fields.
 * <p>
 * Setters should validate input and throw exceptions (eg IllegalArgumentException) with an appropriate message.
 * 
 * @author grant@lastweekend.com.au
 * @version $Id: codetemplates.xml,v 1.2 2005/01/22 06:53:11 ggardner Exp $
 */
public interface WeatherStationConfigurer {

    /**
     * 
     * @return template name for rendering the configuration form
     */
    String getFormName();

    /**
     * Validate bean fields and update the station configuration.
     * 
     * @throws WeatherStationException
     */
    void save() throws WeatherStationException;

}